This book is designed to provide the theoretical, but most of all, the practical bases needed for the achievement of atmospheric composition analyses from infrared remote sensing.

Hervé Herbin is currently Professor at the University of Lille, France, where he mainly teaches optics and molecular spectroscopy. His research, conducted at Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (LOA), includes high spectral resolution infrared measurements from laboratory, ground-based and satellite remote-sensing dedicated to the studies of the composition and evolution of the Earth’s atmosphere. As such, he is scientific manager of an instrumental prototype (CHRIS) and involved in the technical specification of the future spatial infrared spectrometer IASI-NG.

Philippe Dubuisson is Professor in the physics department at the University of Lille I, France, where he teaches general physics, atmospheric sciences and radiative transfer to undergraduate and graduate students. In his current position at LOA, his research experience is mainly in the field of radiative transfer modeling in the solar and thermal spectral ranges with applications to remote sensing and radiative forcing estimates. He has been involved in the definition and analysis of recent space instruments, mainly for the Infrared Imager Radiometer (IIR / CALIPSO) and the wide-field imaging radiometer/polarimeter POLDER on PARASOL, mainly for retrieval of water vapor content or aerosol and cloud optical characterization.